Bing caters to your big night, or any night, needs with food delivery Ordering food for your Oscars party? Or maybe it’s just too cold out to brave the elements in search of a meal. Bing makes it easier to order food right from the comfort of your couch. For restaurants that deliver, click “order online” to launch an ordering service, such as eat24, and get dishes delivered directly to you. Give it a try yourself: Khan Toke Thai House San...
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Hollywood’s biggest night of the year is less than a week away and Bing will help you get ready for the 87th Academy Awards®. Whether you’re a movie buff, red carpet watcher or just love the spectacle of the show, we’ve put together an interactive guide that puts everything Oscars® at your fingertips. Come check out all the nominees and find out who we’re predicting to go home with a statue this year! You can use our experience to explore more...
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With the Oscars® coming up this Sunday, movies are on our minds. This month the Bing Maps team’s update on new aerial, 3D and Streetside imagery takes a look at locations from some of our favorite films. Be sure to check out all of the new imagery we’re publishing…READ MORE
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As you know, Bing Maps helps you understand your world. Last month I described how you can use imagery on Bing Maps to interactively learn about history by exploring where important events like the Civil Rights Movement took place. This month I’m going to focus on a lighter topic—learning about filming locations from your favorite movies. I like movies and love seeing places featured in movies I’ve seen. With Bing, you can explore these locations...
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At Bing, we want to give a fresh perspective on the events that matter most. When it comes to big sporting moments, few global events rival the upcoming cricket tournament, which runs from February 13 to March 28 in Australia and New Zealand. Bing will deliver all the key information cricket fans need to follow the action. This includes Bing’s predictions for every match, polls and quizzes, plus trivia for the novice and expert alike. All the key...
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Have you ever wondered if it’s possible to get high-PPI (high pixel density) map tiles from the Bing Maps AJAX Control? Wonder no more. 
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For this post, we spent some time with Wei Wang, a Senior Program Manager in the Mobile Relevance team here at Bing and asked him to explain some of the basic things they face when answering “local” queries via mobile, and to explain a bit about how Bing fills in the blanks to determine the “best” result for a local-intent query.- Duane In web search, many queries are associated with location, even when there is no location...
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At Bing we share a belief that, when information is made freely available, people everywhere become empowered to do extraordinary things. Nowhere is this more true than in areas of the world where people’s access to the internet is mobile-first. Today, Facebook introduced the next phase of Internet.org, a global initiative aimed at making the benefits of the internet more accessible to people around the world and, starting today, Bing is proud to...
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It is often said that upwards of 80% of business data has some sort of location based context to it. In recently years many companies have learnt the value of unlocking this data and making use of it to make better business decisions. Many companies use Bing Maps to make better sense of their business data by visualizing it on a map. In this blog post we are going to take a look at many of the different ways point based business data can be...
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Last week we released an update to the Bing app for iPhone users. As always, we are thankful for all the enthusiastic feedback from our users, so please keep it coming. Probably the most common concern people have online is protecting their privacy. Deleting search history and cookies is an easy way to manage privacy. We wanted to put our users in control, so we’ve made it simple to take these actions in the app. The simplest method to delete past...
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